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Agriculture is about people. People talk all the time, but not always about the right stuff! The most effective way to find solutions to the challenges of farming, is to get people talking – about agriculture, and the solutions, rather than only the challenges. At the heart of agricultural development is changing people’s behavior. In…

Last year SSLLP distributed Mbundumale cassava stems to some households in Karonga. We shared pictures and stories of some households that received these on our social sites. As per the norm, once ready the crop should be passed on to another beneficiary. Mr. Kenneth Mvula became a beneficiary of the project this year as he…

Mr. Mwangomba is one of the beneficiaries who received both sweet potato and cassava cultivars from SSLLP this year. He is a very hard working farmer that has received the development gladly. Mr. Mwangomba managed to multiply the sweet potato vines he was given tremendously and transplanted the vines to an even wider field. He…

Bothar is a charity organization that works through local community groups that vary immensely in size and form. Bothar has worked with SSLLP since the beginning of the organization which is in 1996, Bothar has worked with SSLLP on the implementation of livestock resilience projects were hybrid dairy cows and goats were donated directly from Ireland to…

In the year 2003, ten dairy farmers received original dairy cattle straight from Ireland. The strength of this project was in the idea of passing on the heifers from one beneficiary who received the animal to another. After fourteen years of the projects implementation, one might tend to wonder if the project has addressed the…

SSLLP envisions a Malawian society where small holder farmers are able to realize meaningful, tangible and sustainable livelihood benefits from agricultural enterprise and natural resources and SSLLP realizes that this cannot be achieved if women are left behind in Agricultural activities. Malawi as a country is comprised by a majority of women and so if…